This is CBS? (1979)

The end of a 1979 Late Movie, recorded off of WCBS New York. So we have the bumper, into a Death Wish promo, and into the Eye - but wait... the announcer's not supposed to say "Channel 2 New York"!

I'm encoding this and a batch of promos for elsewhere, but I'm interested to know... is this a slip-up, or was it intentional? And for that matter, did it go out nationwide?

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Film & Animation

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• CBS
• Ident
• WCBS
• slipup

[Wildcock23]

How come the announcer isn't supposed to say "Channel 2 New York"? CBS is channel 2 New York

[HulkieD]

Yeah... but the CBS eye is intended to air nationally. WCBS-TV had its own ident slides, over which the announcer would say "Channel 2 New York". Presumably and evidently, the entire nation was told they were watching Channel 2 New York.

The same announcers worked for both the network and the local station, and WCBS was run off the same master control as the network, so the screwup is quite feasible.

[diapertom2001]

I always loved these bumpers, Takes me back to the best time in my life!!

[hkfreak]

Is this CBS?

[LBrilliante]

@diapertom2001 Just the bumpers alone.. it's amazing.. i'm just checking these all out.. can't wait to come across the 430 movie ABC intro .. million dollar movie on WOR.. too many memories... Santa in the remington razor..

[raymieX]

Yes, but the same content was fed out.

Recently a clip was posted with a brief blip of Rolland Smith after a CBS ID — right before a WNAC Boston (!) newsbreak open — NewsActive3 says he's seen it rarely in Indiana or elsewhere.

It was highly likely that this was seen across the country, or at least in the Central and Eastern time zones.

[tsntana]

@tsntana (cont) On our affiliate, there was no such ticker. So the national CBS feed is seperate from WCBS.

[tsntana]

KZTV never used their own ident for this slide. I would remember if Walter Furley said, "This Is CBS". :)

In any case, I think it was just dubbed over for WCBS. To my understanding, WCBS is considered an O&O affiliate. So after the national broadcast, it goes on to local programming and advertising just like any other affiliate. I noticed on DirecTV a few years back during CBS Evening News (or maybe it was morning news), WCBS had a news ticker on the bottom. (cont)

[micmac99]

I wonder if that person who posted those WCCO airchecks might have this clip off WCCO. That would answer the question.

[sd02231]

Unless the person who posted it heard it somewhere else, that was a New York ident for New York. There's no such thing as a "national announcer" who broadcasts live for network IDs. There are separate local and national feeds for programming and station identification.

[bakerandbaker1]

I doubt many people cared...I mean how many people were up by that time?

[bjroberts65]

This is when Television was GOOD....Today it's all a bunch of HORSESHIT!!!

[Banner4real035]

It sounds to me like "Channer 2 New York" was dubbed over "This is CBS", because of the way "Advised" is partially cut off. In any case, a great bumper from the waning days of civility on television. Thanks for posting! :-)

[ArtificialBanana]

@HulkieD That sounded like Jim Jenson.